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June 05th 2012:Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman on Moving Forward to a New Gold Standard

Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman are back—together this time—to talk about a return to a gold standard. In 1982, both recommended a return to the gold standard. Since then our fiat money system has led us down a path of destruction. What would the world be like now if the US had followed Paul and Lehrman's advice at that time? More importantly, what will the world look like 10 or 15 years from now if policy continues to ignore that advice? If we are to return to a gold standard, how do we get there from here and how would it need to differ to achieve a gold standard for our time? Would silver work

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Lewis E. Lehrman

Lewis E. Lehrman was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his work in American history. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum. Mr. Lehrman co-founded the Lincoln & Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, where he has taught the Lincoln Senior Seminar.
Mr. Lehrman received his B.A. from Yale and his M.A. in History from Harvard. He was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in History at Yale and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in History at Harvard. Mr. Lehrman is widely known for his run for Governor of New York in 1982. In 1983, Mr. Lehrman was the Cardinal Cooke honoree of the Archdiocese of New Yo

Dr. Ron Paul

Founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, a two-time Republican presidential candidate and one time Libertarian nominee, and a multiple-term congressman of Texas, is a leading advocate of freedom in our nation. He devoted his political career to the defense of individual liberty, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls him “The Thomas Jefferson of our day.” After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s, Dr. Paul went on to deliver over 4,000 babies in his career as an obstetrician. He served in Congress from 1976 to 1984, and again from 1996 to 2012. The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is a pr